Well I use biblatex to produce the chicago citations, used pretty widely in
the humanities in N. America, and the LaTeX \cite{} commands under that
setup take their optional arguments in square brackets.  The most frequent
optional argument is a page number for the citation, but I also use them for
prefixes to the citation, e.g. a footnote which reads "See also Becker, 59"
would be generated like this \autocite[59][See also](Becker2010).

Scot


On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 1:29 AM, Aidan Gauland <aidalgol@no8wireless.co.nz>wrote:

> Alan L Tyree wrote:
> > Disable footnotes like [2010], but keep footnotes like [fn:2010]
> >
> > The reason is that I write legal texts that have references to case law
> > that look like: Marreco v Richardson [1908] 2 KB 584. The dates in
> > square brackets are an essential part of the reference.
>
> Perhaps it would be best to determine for what type of writing the current
> way
> Org handles footnotes is lacking.  Is it just academic writing in general,
> of
> mostly only certain fields?  Both Alan and I have needed to use a
> workaround
> for legal writing (I'm a first-year student; don't know about Alan).  What
> have other people had trouble footnoting/citing in Org?
>
> --Aidan
>
>
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